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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by huahaiy on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:49PM (#11930304)
It should be obvious that I am Han. I agree that this analogy would give some people an impression that I considered Tibetans savages. But no, that's not how I saw it. The way I saw them is not unlike the way Jon Snow saw the free folks. Tibetan and Han actually share the same ancestry. We happened to be separated by a natural barrier (unlike the wall in GOT that is man made) only a couple thousands years ago. We are basically the same people.
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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by lostlogin on Saturday June 18, 2016 @05:30PM (#11930694)
> It should be obvious that I am Han

Doesn't hurt to check!

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by huahaiy on Saturday June 18, 2016 @05:49PM (#11930762)
If I were a Tibetan and had earned a Ph.D. in US. I probably would have been a member of the Tibetan elite, I would not be writing in the HN comments section here, but in the NYT opinion section to condemn the Chinese government by now. Wouldn't that be more realistic?

I am sure my cousin in law would not agree with whatever I could have written in NYT as a member of the Tibetan elite though.

What I am saying is that the elite may not represents the best interests of the people they claim to represent.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by lostlogin on Saturday June 18, 2016 @08:17PM (#11931227)
That statement applies to you being Han too - your level of education puts you into an elite category I'd have thought?
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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by huahaiy on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:29PM (#11931458)
This is the thing. With the same background and education, I am a nobody when I am Han, and I am speaking for myself, not representing anyone. That would not be the case when I am Tibetan. I would be given a platform to broadcast my dissatisfaction with Chinese government, so on and so forth.

What does this tell you?

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by lostlogin on Sunday June 19, 2016 @02:35AM (#11932038)
> With the same background and education, I am a nobody when I am Han, and I am speaking for myself, not representing anyone.

Why is this? Because of the government structure?

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